Unlock the Magic of Photoshop’s Game-Changing Channel Mixer

Here’s a quick-and easy explanation of color theory from the Photoshop Together YouTube channel, with a specific focus on a transformative yet oft-ignored tool that enables you to  significantly boost the impact of all sorts of photographs that don’t quite make the grade.

Our unnamed instructor breaks down the theory (RGB additive color principles) and illustrates post-processing techniques so that you’ll gain real control instead of relying upon guesswork and random adjustments. You’ll learn all the basics in barely six minutes and never revert to you old method of applying enhancements.

Photoshop’s Color Mixer’s capabilities have a wide range of applications for portraiture and other popular genres. As you’ll see, fixing unnatural skin tones is super easy, as is making a dull white objects look pure and bright.

But there’s much more you can accomplish with this versatile tool, like turning red into yellow, green into cyan, along with just about any other color modification you want to achieve in an images. Landscape photographers will appreciate one of the examples in which a green rice field is transformed into a golden harvest,

Our instructor put’s it bluntly: “Channel Mixer is the most powerful tool in Photoshop for doing all this and more. It might sound complicated, but it’s actually very visual and super useful for  controlling color.” So watch closely as you’re walked through various applications of a technique that should play a prominent role in your everyday Photoshop workflow.

Then head over to the new Photoshop Together YouTube channel for more how-to videos based upon years of editing experience.

We also recommend taking a close look at the tutorial we featured earlier with another post-processing expert who demonstrates a quick-and easy Lightroom technique that immediately draws attention to the key element in your photographs.